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By design : why there are no locks on the bathroom doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and other object lessons / Ralph Caplan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fairchild Publications, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Second editionDescription: xx, 267 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1563673495
  • 9781563673498
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.2 22
LOC classification:
  • TS171.4 .C35 2005
Contents:
1. The possibilities of design : the misplaced art of making things right -- 2. The professional emergence : where industrial designers came, and are coming from -- 3. The way things mean : what goes on between us and our artifacts -- 4. The prop : what chairs are for -- 5. A pride of camels : we are all designers -- 6. Suitable for framing : is design art? -- 7. The design of possibilities : the shift from object to situation -- 8. Making connections : the designer as universal joint : object lessons in the work of Charles and Ray Eames -- 9. The more things change, the more we stay the same : design and society respond to change and to each other.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The possibilities of design : the misplaced art of making things right -- 2. The professional emergence : where industrial designers came, and are coming from -- 3. The way things mean : what goes on between us and our artifacts -- 4. The prop : what chairs are for -- 5. A pride of camels : we are all designers -- 6. Suitable for framing : is design art? -- 7. The design of possibilities : the shift from object to situation -- 8. Making connections : the designer as universal joint : object lessons in the work of Charles and Ray Eames -- 9. The more things change, the more we stay the same : design and society respond to change and to each other.

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